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...Jewel City Bowl in Glendale, Calif., 300 spectators gathered for an unusual bowling event. They had come not to watch bowlers but machines. As a bowler sent his ball crashing into the tenpins, the ball hit the cushion, set off an automatic switch. Almost before a spectator could say "Strike," an intricate machine swept the alley clean of pins, set them in place on a rack, dropped a second set of pins into place, and sent the ball back to the bowler. It was an impressive demonstration of the American Machine & Foundry Co.'s new automatic pinspotting machine...
...depression, and "no ifs, ands and no buts," is predicted by Dr. William A. Irwin, economist for the American Bankers Association. Huge accumulated business earnings and private savings provide "the biggest cushion in history against depression." Farm incomes "are in no real danger of collapse; the law requires the Government to see to that, and so does the farmer's vote...
...prosperous Times suffered little from the strike, since it was covered by strike insurance and had an excess-profits-tax cushion. (But another dispute with three mechanical unions prevented the paper from coming back on the streets immediately after settling its Guild strike.) Its rival, Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 184,301) picked up close to 50,000 readers and more ads than it could print, but the Times confidently expects to hold its circulation lead. Striking editorial staffers found temporary jobs, from unloading bananas and canned salmon on the city's docks to doing cleanup jobs...
Poet Alfred de Musset was next on the list. She sat on a cushion at his feet, puffing a long pipe of Bosnian cherrywood, while he murmured that "his genius was a poor, frail thing." It was. George left Alfred half dead in a Venetian hotel and took up with his Italian doctor. "Is it in you, my Pietro," Sand wrote to her medico, "in you at long last that I shall see my dream fulfilled?" It was not in Pietro...
...cream cone to a shot of shaving cream. In addition to machines that serve hot or cold sandwiches and chocolate sundaes, make change and give massages, there was an automatic vendor, suitable for race tracks and ballparks, that is installed under a seat and delivers a seat cushion in return...